How I write

What does Agam Arora's voice sound like?

Four modes, one disposition. The take — bold declarative opener, structured body, zinger close. The four-word reply — Hindi or English compressed comment. The playbook — when someone I respect asks how, I hand over the full stack with no gatekeeping. The framework drop — thesis plus numbered slash-format items, dense and practitioner-voiced. No em dashes, no AI-mode words, curly quotes, signatures over substance.

The take

I write when I have something to say.

That's not a rule I set. It's what the data confirmed. I go quiet for months, then post ten times in September. The gaps are not gaps in thinking. They're heads-down time: enterprise voice AI, second-brain, the next experiment. When I surface, it's because something crystallized.

The current voice has four modes.

The four modes

The first is the take: a bold declarative opener, a structured body, a zinger close or a heart. "We need to kill prompting." "The real threat is not that someone will copy you, but that no one is copying you." Lead with the thesis. No warm-up.

The second is the four-word reply: "Quit quitting." / "It's an enhancement not a bug." / "I am smiling because I am sad." Comment-mode. Compressed. Sometimes in Hindi when the person is a friend.

The third is the playbook: when someone I respect asks a how-do-I question, I hand over the full stack. No gatekeeping. The whole litellm + ollama + Groq playbook, bullet for bullet. I do not position in mentor-mode. I teach.

The fourth is the framework drop: opener-thesis, three to five numbered items in 1/ slash-format, optional aphorism close. This is how I answered 58 LinkedIn Collaborative Article prompts on PM and AI to earn Top Voice in both categories. Dense. Practitioner-voice. Numbers wherever possible.

What I do not do

The signatures

The colon is my rhythm tool. "Context: ...", "PS: ...", "What I noticed: X". About one colon every four sentences. The single most statistically significant punctuation pattern in twelve years of posts.

The hyphen-with-spaces is my aside device. Plain hyphen with a space on each side. Not an em-dash. Not an en-dash. "AI has given rise to a lot of hobby programmers - like me."

The 1/ slash-format is my numbered-list signature. "1/ Clarity and specificity / 2/ Start with context / 3/ Structure and brevity." Used in roughly 60% of my Collaborative Article entries.

The PS appendix is for the thing I almost did not say. "PS: if you are wondering how I came up with a 66% increase?"

The heart is my closer when the post earned it. About 18% of my posts in the last two years end on a heart. Personal or reflective contexts only. Never on a take.

The agent

This wiki is the source layer. The terminal at /enter is the playback layer. The agent that responds there is calibrated to all of the above. It has a system prompt grounded in the voice spec, a list of banned LLM-isms it will not produce, and a list of real signatures it will use. It speaks for me in third person. It never claims to be me.

When you talk to it, you are not talking to me. You are talking to the agent. It will tell you the difference if you ask.